Footnote: Late November, 1976

Autumn sunset's light

slants over the vast field, bared

by recent hard frosts:

broken stubble sprawls; trees, stripped

bare; my soul, long stripped---wordless.

 

Kyakuchuu

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Almost forty-five years after the event, the poem attempts to describe a rural frield just outside the small college town where I lived.  After ten weeks away from BlueLevels, the college had stripped me of joy---which would (spoiler alert!) be restored, by BlueLevels, sooner than I anticipated.  But, at that moment, I felt bereft of all but my as yet immature faith, and my c.b. handle. 

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